[PDF] Essays In Religion And Morality eBook

Author : William James
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 382 pages
File Size : 32,42 MB
Release : 1982
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780674267350

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Essays in Religion and Morality brings together a dozen papers of varying length to these two themes so crucial to the life and thought of William James. Reflections on the two subjects permeate, first, James's presentation of his father's Literary Remains; second, his writings on human immortality and the relation between reason and faith; third, his two memorial pieces, one on Robert Gould Shaw and the other on Emerson; fourth, his consideration of the energies and powers of human life; and last, his writings on the possibilities of peace, especially as found in his famous essay "The Moral Equivalent of War." These speeches and essays were written over a period of twenty-four years. The fact that James did not collect and publish them himself in a single volume does not reflect on their intrinsic worth or on their importance in James's philosophical work, since they include some of the best known and most influential of his writings. All the essays, throughout their varied subject matter, are consistently and characteristically Jamesian in the freshness of their attack on the problems and failings of humankind and in their steady faith in human powers.

Author : Philip L. Quinn
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 11,74 MB
Release : 2023
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781383044157

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This volume brings together 14 of the papers by the late Philip Quinn, one of the world's leading philosophers of religion. It covers topics such as: religious epistemology, religious ethics, religion and tragic dilemmas, religion and political liberalism, Christian philosophy, and religious diversity.

Author : Richard Mervyn Hare
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 258 pages
File Size : 29,23 MB
Release : 1998
Category : Education
ISBN : 9780198249962

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R. M. Hare, one of the most widely discussed of today's moral philosophers, here presents his most important essays on religion and education, in which he brings together the theoretical and the practical.

Author : John Bishop
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 263 pages
File Size : 10,53 MB
Release : 2007-04-12
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 019920554X

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Does our available evidence show that some particular religion is correct? It seems unlikely, given the great diversity of religious - and non-religious - views of the world. But if no religious beliefs can be shown true on the evidence, can it be right to make a religious commitment? Should people make 'leaps of faith'? Or would we all be better off avoiding commitments that outrun our evidence? And, if leaps of faith can be acceptable, how do we tell the difference between goodand bad ones - between sound religion and dogmatic ideology or fundamentalist fanaticism? Believing by Faith offers answers to these questions, inspired by a famous attempt to justify faith made by William James in 1896. In doing so, it engages critically with much recent discussion in the philosophyof religion, and, especially, the epistemology of religious belief.

Author : G.E.M. Anscombe
Publisher : Andrews UK Limited
Page : 348 pages
File Size : 10,82 MB
Release : 2017-04-11
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 1845402820

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Elizabeth Anscombe's forthright philosophy speaks directly to many religious and ethical issues of current concern.This collection of her essays forms a companion volume to the critically acclaimed Human Life, Action and Ethics, published in 2005.

Author : Gerard V. Bradley
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 29,14 MB
Release : 2014
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781587312304

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Finally, Bradley takes up the questions of religious liberty and how our democratic polity should treat religion. These chapters cover the original meaning of the First Amendment's Establishment Clause, the role of Catholicism in the post-World War II controversies over movie censorship as they played out in the Supreme Court, and emerging challenges to religious liberty in the 21st century."--Pub. desc.

Author : William Kingdon Clifford
Publisher : Good Press
Page : 34 pages
File Size : 23,79 MB
Release : 2021-04-11
Category : Religion
ISBN :

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This book combines the two essays which comprise the famous philosophical exchange between the mathematician William Kingdon Clifford and William James, a psychologist and philosopher. Famous for articulating their arguments and discussing morality surrounding belief, these two papers are united in a single edition.